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Water-Elevators. NO. 153,047. Patented July 14., 1874..

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ATTORNEYS THE GRAPHIC CO PHOYO-LLTH-ZQL I PARK PLACE,N.Y.

UNITE STATES PATENT QFFIC'E.

JOSEPH OHENOVVETH, OF KENESAVV, NEBRASKA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-ELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,047, dated July 14, 1874; application filed May 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn CHENOWETH, of Kenesaw, in the county of Adams and State of N ebraska,have invented anewand valuable Improvement in Water-Elevators and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a side view, part sectional, of my water-elevator. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

This invention has relation to mechanism for elevating water from wells by wind-power, wherein tilting buckets are employed. The nature of my invention consists in combining with a wind-wheel automatically-shiftin g gearing and a Windlass, whereby the revolution of the Windlass-will be automatically reversed at proper times for raising or lowering the bucket. It also cons' ts in combining with the above a novel device for automatically tilting the bucket when elevated, and discharging the water into an annular trough, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawing, A designates a tower, of suitable construction, on the upper end of which is a horizontal beam, B, having a vane secured to one end. This beam is free to revolve horizontally around a tubular shaft, a. G O designate standards, which afford bearings for a shaft, which carries a wind-wheel, I), on one end, and a pinion -wheel, 0, on the other end. Wheel 0 is intended to engage with the teeth of one or the other of two wheels, E E, which wheels are applied fast on a shaft, (1, carrying between these wheels a windingdrum, F. The shaft d has its end bearings in two branches of a horizontally-vibrating frame, G, which is hinged to a post, B, on the beam B. By vibrating frame G, either one (but not both at the same time) of the wheels E E can be made to engage with the pinion c. G designates an arm of frame G, the free end of which arm passes freely through a long slot, f, made through a bar, H, arranged at right angles to the beam B, and pivoted at its outer end to a vibrating loaded arm, I. The

arm I is pivoted at its lower end to a bracket. J, which is secured rigidly to the beam B, and to this arm a rod, K, is pivoted, which is com nected to a crank-arm of a double crank, g, oscillating in bearings g on the beam B. The other arm of this crank 9 reaches over the tubular shaft a, and has depending from it a lifting-rod, h, 011 the lower end of which a horizontal eye, h, is formed, through which eye the bucket-rope 0 passes. L L are two pivoted latches, which are arranged on opposite sides of the arm G, and intended for holding this arm in either one of its two positions, consequently keeping the proper one of wheels E in gear with the pinion c on the wind-wheel shaft. The latches drop into place by their own gravity, and are raised to free the arm G by means of a lug, i, on the slotted bar H. The rope 1', which carries the bucket N, is attached to a loop, 8, which is pivoted to the periphery of the drum F, which loop will depress the crank-arm, which is on that end of the crank 9 below said drum, and shift the wheels E when the bucket has reached its lowest point. The bucket is suspended by means of a bail, j, which is connected to cars between the upper and lower ends of the bucket, and which is constructed with a narrow tongue, 7c, that passes freely through an eye formed on another bail, Z, attached to the upper end of the bucket. A weight, w, keeps the bucket upright, and aids in filling it. P designates an annular trough, into which the water is emptied, and from which it flows through an outlet, m.

The operation is as follows: The wind-wheel rotates in one direction only; but the Windlass receives rotation in one direction for lowering the bucket, and in an opposite direction for raising it. This is effected by shifting wheels E into gear with pinion c. When the bucket has nearly reached the termination of its up per movement the tongue k on the bail j will pass through the eye h on rod h, and the bail Z will be arrested by this eye, thereby tilting the bucket, and emptying the water into the trough P. The bucket is still further raised, which will push up rod h, and throw the loaded arm over toward the beam B, thereby causing the looped end of the rod H to act on arm G, and shift the wheels E, and change the direc tion of rotation of the drum D. hen the bucket has descended, the loop 3 on drum D will assume a vertical position, and depress the arm of crank g, so as to throw the loaded arm outwardly, and thereby cause the slot-ted end of slotted rod 11 to shift the wheels E again, for the purpose of elevating the bucket. This operation continues as long as the wind turns the wheel.

hat I claim as new is- 1. In combination with the wind-wheel D and pinion 0, the automatically-shifting wheels E E and winding-drum I1, operated substantially as described.

2. The pivoted loop 8 on drum F, combined with the crank g of the shifting devices de' scribed.

JOSEPH GI-IENOWETH.

Vitnesscs:

EDWARD MOORE, \V. V. MILLER. 

